Wanderers Way Episode 6: Ricardo Gardner

Wanderers Way Episode 6: Ricardo Gardner

Wanderers Way · 2025-04-04
01:19:26

Welcome back to Wanderers Way, the official podcast of Bolton Wanderers Football Club, in association with iHeat.

On this week's episode, Derek and John are joined by Wanderers legend Ricardo Gardner.

Playing over 340 times in a 14 year period for Wanderers, Ricardo tells us what it was like being a part of one of the football club's most impressive eras.

Timestamps:

7:15 - Early life and living in Jamaica

14:35 - Playing for the Jamaican national team

30:25 - Joining Wanderers

34:10 - Settling in at BWFC

45:15 - Getting used to English football

46:25 - The end of the Colin Todd era and Sam Allardyce

49:25 - The legendary players of the Allardyce era

51:32 - 2001 Championship Play-Off Final vs Preston

53:56 - Building in the Premier League

59:44 - European football and scoring at Bayern Munich

01:08:22 - BWFC 2005/06 Player of the Year

01:11:00 - Current day BWFC

Wanderers Way

The official podcast of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.

Wanderers TV host Derek Clark, partnered with Wanderers legend John McGinlay, speak to current and former players, prominent figures in the town and to some of our most famous fans.

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